Between the `Black Death' in the mid-fourteenth century and the French invasions at the end of the fifteenth, artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo, working in the kingdoms, princedoms, and republics of the Italian peninsula, created some of the most influential and exciting works in a variety of artistic fields. Yet the traditional story of the Renais...(展开全部)

“牛津艺术史”系列第五本！ 权威学者打破神话，全方位生动还原文艺复兴辉煌背后的人性真相！ 近160幅文艺复兴代表作精美插图 附全球相关博物馆、美术馆及主题网站全面指南 这里有众多的艺术品类型，绘画与雕塑只是其中很小的一部分。 这里是名门望族林立的意大利，神话般的美第奇家族只是其中的一个。 这里有势力庞大的各商业行会，其赞助手笔毫不逊色于宫廷权贵。 这里当然有的是名垂青史的顶级艺术家，但他们的工作室可能杂乱无章，状况百出，而一山多虎也必导致极其残酷的明暗竞争。 就算是达•芬奇，在学徒时期也会为了争取资助而极尽赞美之能事。 就算是教皇的亲自委托，在教堂庄严威仪的青铜大门背后，艺术家还是秘密刻上了自娱自乐的戏谑场景，为后人留下永恒的玩笑。 我们现在将他们视为伟大的艺术家，但他们却更多视自己为工匠。 我们以为他们会因为才华不被承认而感到脸上无光，但他们却更多...(展开全部)

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a ...(展开全部)

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distincti...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克是英国剑桥大学的文化史教授；剑桥大学埃马纽埃尔学院的研究员。他先前出版的著作包括：《欧洲近代早期的大众文化》（PopularCultureinEarlyModemEurope，1978）、《近代早期意大利的历史人类学解（HistoricaIAnthropologyofEarlyModernItaly，1987）、（《廷臣的命运》（The Fortunes ofthe Courtier，1995）、《历史学与社会理论》（hstoryandSociaL　ThoerY，1992）、《多元的文化史》（VarietiesofCulturalHistorp；1997）。

"Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art "spans the period from the 10th to the 15th century, including discussion of the Carolingian renaissance and the 12th century proto-renaissance. Erwin Panofsky posits that there were "reanscences" prior to the widely known Renaissance that began in Italy in the 14th century. Whereas earlier renascences can be classified as revivals, t...(展开全部)

This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way that art was made, valued, and viewed in northern Europe in the age of the Renaissance, from the late fourteenth to the early years of the sixteenth century. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from inventories and guild regulations to poetry and chronicles, it examines everything from panel paintings to carved altarpieces...(展开全部)

吉莉安•莱利，英国当代著名美食作家，知名食物史研究者，意大利美食的忠实拥趸。毕业于剑桥大学历史专业的她，某次去意大利公干时，却不可救药地爱上了当地美食，并从此矢志不渝。她已出版了多部关于美食和饮食文化史的著作。

Here, the themes and concepts of Renaissance art are analysed and related to both classical and medieval tendencies.